a tube-shaped container for holding split flax or hemp, usually made of thin cypress wood bent to shape

by extension, a pail, bucket, tub, or basin similar to a barrel in construction, made of long thin pieces of cedar or cypress extending up from a base and held in place with hoops; can be small enough to carry in one hand, or large enough to bathe in

桶 (おけ)風 (ぶ)呂 (ろ)(okeburo): an oke fitted with a firebox for heating bathwater: a traditional Japanese wooden ofuro hottub

桶 (おけ)伏 (ぶ)せ(okebuse): wearing an oke on one's head: a mob punishment in the pleasure districts of early Edo-period Japan, where non-paying customers would be forced to wear an oke on their heads, were sat down on the side of the street, and forced to pay up